More serious answer: VR/AR requires people to try it before they will buy it. Apple has stores. Zuckerberg doesn't. Apple has trust. Zuckerberg doesn't. Apple has content (music, movies, TV, fitness, games). Zuckerberg barely has any. Apple has a whole ecosystem.
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Product Design Failures and Business Model Constraints Undermine User Experience
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He put shitty headphones into his product so music sucks in comparison. If you can't play music along with best of class, you can not deliver experiences to people. It gets worse from there. His business model is a noose around his neck. It's why he cut corners on
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OpenAI Hardware Limitations Prevent Siri AI Integration
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OpenAI will never have access to the hardware, which you would need to do away with Siri. But that said, I agree with you. I wish Siri worked like Whisper and GPT.
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Britain lacks cloud giant GPU infrastructure for AI training
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'Although Oracle has a cluster of the advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to train large models, none of the cloud-computing giants has yet chosen Britain as the base for what techies call the "compute".' https://
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Research SuperCluster Enables Breakthrough AI Research at Scale
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The Research SuperCluster enables our research teams to do new, breakthrough AI research at an even greater scale and pace than ever before. Ning Dong and Maha Elbayad shared more about how it's enabling their work.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 15 juin 2023
More details ➡️ https://t.co/i1W6ld96Eb pic.twitter.com/ZgtcmrzF8OThe Research SuperCluster enables our research teams to do new, breakthrough AI research at an even greater scale and pace than ever before. Ning Dong and Maha Elbayad shared more about how it's enabling their work. More details https://
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LLM Adoption Across Sequoia Portfolio Companies
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Quick one – when you say “Nearly every company in the Sequoia network is building language models into their products.” Do you refer to the entire Sequoia portfolio or the 33 companies you selected to sample, which I assume are those most likely to be in a spot where LLMs are
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ChatGPT versus Raphaël Enthoven: Media Experiment Fairness Questioned
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Cette expérience est une escroquerie médiatique
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 15 juin 2023
ChatGPT a eu 90 secondes
Raphael Enthoven a eu 90 minutes
J’aime beaucoup Raphaël malgré tout 😂 https://t.co/OuK0URIusgCette expérience est une escroquerie médiatique ChatGPT a eu 90 secondes Raphael Enthoven a eu 90 minutes J’aime beaucoup Raphaël malgré tout
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EU Considers Forcing Google to Divest Adtech Business
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Saying “behavioral remedy” would be ineffective, EU officials say it might be necessary to force Google to divest of part of its adtech biz if found to be in violation of EU law. My story from yesterday about the new antitrust case against the tech giant: https://
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Google Launches AI-Powered Help Me Write Feature in Gmail
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Google is rolling out an AI-enabled “Help Me Write” function in Gmail. Am I going to have to start using Gmail again??
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UK AI Regulation Policy Under Rishi Sunak Leadership
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https://
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